Mohamed Hassan
Portland
My interest in Music was well established at a very young age; when I used to move to sounds of the washing machine, knock on objects to hear how they sound, or when I started drumming on random objects.
I am Sudanese at origin, Abu Dhabi, UAE, where my Hip-hop career started in 1992 as part of the M.Z.O Family, a group of 3 M.C.’s, Maaf.g(Mohamed Faroug), Zee (ziad abdulgader), Outlaw(moaz magma) growing up together same school and interests.
Sitting down making plans to perform witch song and that develop to writing our own lyrics and using famous instrumentals to rap on it whenever we get the chance to rehearse different raps on different beats and styles cause perfection is the goal... the barrier of culture and language was an postictal though we continued to develop our skills to match the environment we are in, speaking different Arabic dialogues including the English.
Main goal is to make a change by being an important part of the community, motivate those who didn't believe they could be superstars and have a carrier in ARTS, in our case is music, doing music to stay out of trouble and not to waist free time, create friendships based on ARTS...
not collar nor background, tong, religion… just ART.. Simply MUSIC, the chance to express, a way to let go of all the negative energy, a way to freedom, beating fear and knowing myself-better. However, at the age of 15 I moved to the U.S to pursuit my American Dream in Music, determined to advance my vocals and musical talents. I lived in Fort Washington, Maryland. Where I went to Oxon Hill high school where I started my vocal training in the Oxon Hill high school vocal music department in the hands of DR. Amery Andrews, Director of the department and a holder of Doctorate degree in vocal music Florida A&M University, Florida. USA. I released my first solo Demo album (Black Thing) in 1997 which featured many local Hip-hop singles such as (Black thing, the way you do) for the next 3 years…
In the year 2000 I moved to Mankato, Minnesota to study Audio Editing & Production, I end up not enrolling and my goal wasn't focused on having a degree or to depend on it, but it’s the experience itself. Associated with the university it was easy to train with, perform with and simply get a view of what is the music industry really is, international standards in the fields of entertainment, Music, radio broadcast, beat making, Audio recording, editing & production, DJing, event management. To be known in town as DJ MOJO
Further on, I moved to Virginia in 2003. The first Arabic Hip-hop label (NAS JOTA) was founded in Lorton Virginia. USA after meeting Ehab Basaeed (Zihab) and Mohamed Mamoun (Big Moe). NAS JOTA was a way to express & practice our rights of freedom of speech & expression, to communicate with our home land SUDAN where chances, rights and opportunities is slim to nil… we became a window for Sudanese artist to be able to expose their art and to be exposed to other countries arts, culture and music in my case, explaining what... Continue Reading (www.reverbnation.com/mojsudan)
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